Champagne-et-Fontaine

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Champagne-et-Fontaine is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Champagne-et-Fontaine is the birthplace of Philip I of France.

Geography

The Lizonne flows southwestward through the northern part of the commune and forms part of its western border.

Population

Villages, hamlets, and localities

Personalities

For some twenty years the family of Charles de Gaulle owned a country home there called La Ligerie where de Gaulle spent his summers as a youngster. The de Gaulle family sold La Ligerie in 1920.

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